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Midwestern State University's Master's in Public Administration (MPA) degree has been designed as a professional degree for those individuals who want to pursue a public service career in management. The program offers online distance education courses with a specialization in the administration of justice for students with bachelors degrees. Midwestern State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The MPA program is a member of member the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA).
Full admission to the program is based on a combination of GPA and GRE scores and a 500 word statement. However, students interested in the degree may be provisionally admitted prior to taking the GRE, if they possess a bachelor¹s degree. The GRE must be taken within a month of being provisionally admitted to the program. A typical working student, once accepted into the program, would enroll in no more than two online classes per semester. Toward the end of the student's courses they will be required to complete a file paper and an oral exam.
The program's goal is to offer MPA graduates flexible employment opportunities by providing them with concrete professional competences, critical thinking skills and ethical insights that will benefit career professionals. The program consists of 12 courses that focus on developing the skills and techniques needed by managers to implement policies, projects, and programs aimed at resolving societal problems while also recognizing the organizational, human resource, and budgetary challenges facing them.
The MPA degree, at Midwestern, is divided into core and specialty areas. The core courses focus on such areas as human resources, budgeting and financial processes, information systems, policy and program formulation, implementation and evaluation, decision-making and problem solving, political and legal institutions and processes, economic and social institutions and processes, organization and management concepts and behavior, and ethics. We offer two distance education specialty areas the administration of justice and a general MPA concentration.
The MPA enables graduates to fuse their college education, volunteer and/or professional work experiences allowing them to pursue a meaningful career in federal, state or local government agencies, nonprofit organizations and even in the private sector. The degree offers students flexibility when choosing what field they want to enter upon graduation. As a result graduates of MPA programs are employed in a variety of fields and policy areas.
For more information on how to apply to the program please go to: http://hs2.mwsu.edu/healthandpublic/publicadmin/index.asp
For more information on the MPA program in general, please visit the Midwestern State University MPA Program website at:
http://www.mwsu.edu/~hsa/MPA.htm
or contact:
Sue Cook, Department Secretary
Midwestern State University
Phone: 940.397.4752
Email: sue.cook@msu.edu
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